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While returning by boat to Japan, Yoshie Fujiwara meets a rich woman who suggests him to become a singer thanks to an impresario friend of hers.
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Directed by Yutaka Abe (as Jack Abe).
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her mixed-race son." - Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes University)
A lost Mizoguchi film.
Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been published on DVD coupled with The Downfall of Osen (1935) by Digital MEME in 2007.
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931. Considered a lost film.
A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film.
Shizuko hesitates between two suitors. While the one she marries commits suicide following a scandal, the other refuses to marry out of love for her. Considered a lost film.
